Nicolas Lambelet Coleman
I am a figurative painter with a particular focus on self-portraiture and the
intersection of self-conception and the physical environment. I think of my
work as being primarily about spaces. In my portraits, the figure often takes a
secondary role to the interior or exterior atmosphere in which I position myself.
These settings are crucially informed by my own experiences, memories, and
travels. Growing up in the South to a blended Black and Swiss family, much
of my identity was constructed through a process of self-invention to which
my art was central. I now use myself as a kaleidoscopic subject in my work
to subvert the boundaries that we have constructed around identity and the
tribal nature of what it means to be human.